Card check needs to remain on the back burner

The Gazette

Big Labor gave Barack Obama a big boost. When Obama won re-election, labor chief Richard Trumka made a big boast: Obama will get done what he failed to do in the first term, which is to get card check to become the law of the land.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

“I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned. That doesn’t mean I’m threatening to burn you. That just means if you strike the match, and you put your finger in it, common sense will tell you it’ll burn your finger.”

Unions, Inc.

The Economist CAPITALISM is struggling but organised labour shows no sign of profiting from its